Walter Cronkite Quotes

They're going to have to eat their words. Some of the things I've seen her do on Today when there's breaking news, I thought she's done a fine job. ... Her own journalistic instincts come to the fore. - Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. - Walter Cronkite

There's a difference between that and showboating. There's definitely [some] showboating. Usually it's obvious, to us journalists anyway -- whether it's obvious to the public, I don't know. - Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. - Walter Cronkite

The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw. - Walter Cronkite

The publisher has to be the moral force of the newspaper. She carried herself as a queen ... and she was a queen in her own field. - Walter Cronkite

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. - Walter Cronkite

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. - Walter Cronkite

The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn't have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it. - Walter Cronkite

The Best of the CBS Evening News. - Walter Cronkite

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